Andries Bicker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Andries Bicker

member of Amsterdam regency, representative of the States-General of the Netherlands and board member VOC

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1586

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 24-Jun-1652

Profession: politician, diplomat

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Andries Bicker (1586 – 24 June 1652) was a wealthy merchant on Russia, a member of the vroedschap, the leader of the Arminians, an administrator of the VOC, representative of the States-General of the Netherlands and colonel in the Civic guard.
He controlled the city's politics in close cooperation with his uncle Jacob Dircksz de Graeff and his brother Cornelis Bicker. The Bicker family was one of the oldest patrician families of Amsterdam – consisting of Andries' father Gerrit, a grain merchant and beer brewer, and his three brothers, Jacob, Jan and Cornelis, had a firm grip on world trade, trading on the East, the West, the North and the Mediterranean.
(His uncle Laurens Bicker was one of the first to trade on Guinea and seized four Portuguese ships in 1604).
In 1646, seven members of the Bicker family, called the Bicker's league, simultaneously held some political position or other.
The Bickers provided silver and ships to Spain, and were very much interested in ending the Eighty Years War.
This brought them in conflict with the stadtholder, some provinces, like Zeeland and Utrecht, and the Reformed preachers.



Alternative names	Bartel van der Elst, Bartelmeus van der Elst, Bartholomeus van der Elst, Bartel van der Helst, Bartelmeus van der Helst, Bartel Verelst, Bartelmeus Verelst, Bartholomeus Verelst, Bartel Verhelst, Bartelmeus Verhelst, Bartholomeus Verhelst
Description	Dutch painter and draughtsman
Date of birth/death	1613	16 December 1670 (buried)
Location of birth/death	Haarlem	Amsterdam
Work period	1628–1670 (?)
Work location	Haarlem, Amsterdam (1636-1670)
Authority control	: Q380704 VIAF: 5995918 ISNI: 0000 0000 6634 0412 ULAN: 500115795 LCCN: no00030128 WGA: HELST, Bartholomeus van der WorldCat